> From: "Wiggins d Anconia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > I like most of this answer. I would add that you should drop the
> > declarations of the subs, they are unneeded in Perl and can break some
> > "features". This will help to some extent depending on your calling
> > order.
>
> ???
>
> 1. The declarations are and are not unneeded. Try to remove the
> declaration from this piece of code:
>
'not unneeded'...?
> sub foo;
>
> foo 1, 2, 3;
>
> sub foo {
> print "called foo(" . join(', ', @_) . ")\n";
> }
>
> Until you either declare or define a subroutine you have to put
> braces around its parameters to convince Perl that there will someday
> be a subroutine with that name.
>
Right, which was my gentle push towards him finding the answer to his
own question, and eventually seeing the value of libraries/modules.
> 2. What features do you mean? Noone's talking about prototypes here!
>
We weren't, but we might have eventually...
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